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February 7, 2010 -
Moumita Pramanik:
I always wonder why a child needs to work. Sometimes I ponder, when the child of a middle class family goes to school for education, an 8 year old girl comes to your place to wash the dishes. But we rarely look at the issue from this angle.
Child labour, defined as minors performing a type of work which deprives them from education and acquisition of skills which diminishes their health and development is at an all time high these days with India earning the dubious distinction of having the largest number of child labourers on the planet at around 50 million, with 2 [...]